Interested people should see this team-up by anthropologist David Graeber and archaeologist David Wengrow: https://vimeo.com/145285143 https://vimeo.com/1452851

Interested people should see this team-up by anthropologist David Graeber and archaeologist David Wengrow: https://vimeo.com/145285143 https://vimeo.com/145285143 They're writing a book on the topic of the origins of inequality. One interesting thing is how seasonal it was. (After all, for maybe 75k years, humans could theorize about society as well as any of us.) Fairly recently, we made temporary structures of hierarchy permanent.